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Section 8 provides a way to make it easier for students to immigrate by allowing dual-intent.
Sets aside 20% of the annual allocation of H-1B visas for small and start-up employers This is great, I was worried with the $130k requirement candidates would be stuck at huge corporations, but 20% is fairly generous.
Sets aside 20% of the annual allocation of H-1B visas for small and start-up employers This is great, I was worried with the $130k requirement candidates would be stuck at huge corporations, but 20% is fairly generous.
Reposting my comment from the other thread [1]: --- While TCS, Infosys etc figure prominently in the H-1B debate, I think this new bill does not affect them as much as it is made out to be. The real downside is for staffing firms (popularly known as "desi consulting shops"), mostly run by Indian-Americans. TCS employs 370K+ employees worldwide and had revenue of $16B+ in 2016. They might have gotten 3K H-1Bs each yea…
As a software developer and a US citizen, this is to my advantage. I hope it quickly becomes the law of the land.
Does this mean that a company can pay below the 130k if it can prove that it's not possible to hire an American even with higher wages?
Reposting my comment from the other thread [1]: --- While TCS, Infosys etc figure prominently in the H-1B debate, I think this new bill does not affect them as much as it is made out to be. The real downside is for staffing firms (popularly known as "desi consulting shops"), mostly run by Indian-Americans. TCS employs 370K+ employees worldwide and had revenue of $16B+ in 2016. They might have gotten 3K H-1Bs each yea…
"desi consulting shops" might even run fake payrolls to bypass(break) the laws. As someone who has seen them closely, it is common practice for them to pay an employee $110K on paper but $60K in real.
As a software developer and a US citizen, this is to my advantage. I hope it quickly becomes the law of the land.
How is this to your advantage? Are you having hard time securing a full-time dev job with a US tech company? Last time I checked, there was more demand and shortage of supply for smart programmers (I have been interviewing a lot). Do you happen to work in a region where there are less tech jobs?
To answer your question, I don't have trouble finding or keeping employment. This move will simply drive up my market value. So I'm for it.
As a software developer and a US citizen, this is to my advantage. I hope it quickly becomes the law of the land.
Would love to know how! Our company just move one of our department to Pune because it was hard to get H1Bs. With that I think at least 4 Americans lost their jobs.
What greedy, heartless, unpatriotic company do you work for? I'm sure a massive name-and-shame campaign against them will convince them to restore those 4 jobs.
And perhaps the Republicans could explore the possibility of imposing surcharges on fees paid to offshore development shops, to encourage a more "America First" mindset in greedy companies who lay off American workers and offshore the work.